Value CPUs Roundup: Is There Life in Low-End? . Page 8

Systems built on processors selling at around $50 are in fact not so bad at all. Our today’s article will talk specifically about these processors: AMD Sempron, Intel Celeron and the least expensive solutions from AMD Athlon II X2 and Intel Pentium families.

Performance in 3D Games

To measure the gaming performance of low-end processors participating in our today’s test session we added an ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics accelerator to our platforms. This way, the results below do not depend on the potential of the integrated graphics core of the platform chipsets.

The results show that AMD processors will be a better fit for a low-cost gaming system. However, it is important to keep in mind that these results to not match what we have just seen in a 3D game using Flash technology.